Friday, November 02, 2012

Back from our Hurricane Sandy adventure

I couldn't have picked a more interesting time for our New York City family vacation. I will tell you all about it once my brain is a bit less fried from the entire experience. Stay tuned. Meanwhile I wanted you to know we are back in Santa Cruz -- it's pretty amazing that we got a flight out of Newark yesterday (many were cancelled all around us, and I felt terrible for the families who were waiting around, in some cases for days, to get out.) I have a longer report coming your way, but I just want to say that the New Yorkers were incredibly good-humored and patient during a difficult time for their city.

About Me

My name is Dan White. I am the contributing editor of Catamaran Literary Reader. I write essays for the magazine as well as Q & A's with authors including T.C. Boyle, Lawrence Weschler, Susan Shillinglaw, Aspen Matis and Gail Storey, to name a few (along with a brief piece about the work of Frank Gehry.) My first book is called The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail and was published by HarperCollins. It was a California indie bookstore bestseller and a Los Angeles Times "Discovery" selection. My second book (also nonfiction) is in progress and under contract with Henry Holt & Co. and should be out in a couple of years. My work for UC Santa Cruz includes stories about earthquakes and droughts as well as in-depth conversations with Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Nikki Giovanni among others. The email for this blog dwhitescruz(at)yahoo(dot)com
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